In this video, Mahdi Nazemroaya states that there has been a TNC formed, by the West, in both Syria and Algeria amongst the Islamists. Mahdi focuses his attention mostly on Algeria throughout the video. Mahdi believes that France has been "co-opted" into the United States. - The French have long known that there is a lot of uranium in North Africa. Many corporations, of various European countries, have made an ‘amalgamation,’ joining together in anticipation of working together to obtain North African resources. ‘Rivalry has turned into cooperation,’ is how Mahdi puts it. The long term goal is to change North African societies and redefine the boundaries. Mahdi notes that the Al-Qaeda presence in North Africa is the result of a project that the French and Americans spent many years working to create and control. Dr. Webster Tarpley has been telling people for years that Al-Qaeda is an invention of the CIA, and is used as the CIA’s army.

How writing in a notebook, filming, or looking around too much can throw you into the spooky world of homeland security. - On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the spooky world of homeland security. As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of America, two security guards approached and began questioning him. Although he was not accused of wrongdoing, the guards filed a confidential report about Kleinerman that was forwarded to local police. The reason: Guards thought he might pose a threat because they believed he had been looking at them in a suspicious way.

Video features Palestinian children's drawings depicting their fears of the Palestinian Israeli conflicts.

Mondoweiss: Children’s pictures from Gaza are banned in Bay Area - Disgusting and horrifying news. What are these people afraid of? An exhibit of children's art from Gaza, brought back to the States by Susan Johnson, was scheduled to go public on Sept. 24 at the Oakland Museum of Children's Art. The Middle East Children's Alliance, a partner in staging the exhibit, informs us that the museum's board folded and the exhibit has been cancelled.

Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N. body said on Tuesday, disputing a conclusion reached by a separate U.N. probe into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. - The so-called Palmer Report on the Israeli raid of May 2010 that killed nine Turkish activists said earlier this month that Israel had used unreasonable force in last year's raid, but its naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled strip was legal. A panel of five independent U.N. rights experts reporting to the U.N. Human Rights Council rejected that conclusion, saying the blockade had subjected Gazans to collective punishment in "flagrant contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law." The four-year blockade deprived 1.6 million Palestinians living in the enclave of fundamental rights, they said. "In pronouncing itself on the legality of the naval blockade, the Palmer Report does not recognize the naval blockade as an integral part of Israel's closure policy toward Gaza which has a disproportionate impact on the human rights of civilians," they said in a joint statement.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned of what he calls harsh consequences if the Palestinian Authority goes ahead with its plan to seek UN membership as an independent state.

Lieberman, who is known for his extremist anti-Palestinian stance, however, failed to mention what the threatened consequences might be. "The moment has not yet come to give details of what will happen," the hardline Israeli foreign minister said adding that "What I can say with the greatest confidence is that from the moment they pass a unilateral decision there will be harsh and grave consequences." However, if effort is blocked at the UNSC, the Palestinians say they will turn to the General Assembly, where they are expected to easily win the votes to upgrade representation from observer body to non-member state. The 66th UN General Assembly, due to open on 20 September, will vote on a Palestinian state.

The Ugly Truth: Vilnai: Palestinian UN statehood bid a ‘huge mistake’
Danny Richardson: Israel makes military preparations for UN vote on Palestinian state
PressTV: US vows to 'fight' Palestinian UN bid

Opposed to Palestinian Statehood, Settler Groups Forming Terror Cells - Attacks by Israeli settlers are nothing new, but with a Palestinian statehood vote at the UN looming, spy agency Shin Bet is increasingly concerned that the militant settlers are no longer going to be content chopping down olive trees and spray-painting “death to Arabs” on mosques, and are going to move into serious terrorist activity. Indeed, Shin Bet warned many of the groups are already engaged in “terrorist activity” related to planning attacks, and that some settlers are organizing themselves into terrorist cells aimed at attacking either Palestinians, or the Israeli military, or both. The settlers have been talking up “price tag” attacks against Palestinians as a way to embarrass the Israeli government into leaving unauthorized settlements alone. Increasingly, however, the threats are extending beyond the Palestinians.

“Regardless of the historic conflict between Cuba and the United States, the U.S. Government should immediately and unconditionally release the Cuban Five,” said Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament). - On the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez —internationally known as the Cuban Five—, the Trabajadores weekly published on Monday an exclusive interview with Alarcon, who said that Washington should comply with international regulations regarding the war on terrorism. “The colossal injustice against the Cuban Five had only one explanation: the interest of the U.S. authorities to protect and support anti-Cuba terrorist groups that operate with impunity from the United States,” the top legislator noted. “They openly said it during the unjust trial against them in Miami and it is written in the accusation against them and in the court’s record,” he added.

Stephen Lendman: The Cuban 5: Victims of US State Terrorism

In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson from Michael-Hudson.com. He talks about the US economy and debt crisis as we approach the 2012 presidential elections.

Bloomberg: Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion From Fed

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) - U.S. household income fell to its lowest level in more than a decade in 2010 and poverty rose to a 17-year high, setting the stage for the debate over jobs and the economy that will dominate the 2012 presidential race. - Median household income declined 2.3 percent, and the proportion of people living in poverty last year climbed to 15.1 percent, or almost one in six Americans, from 14.3 percent in 2009, a U.S. Census Bureau report yesterday showed. Income and poverty issues are at the heart of the political discussion in Washington, with President Barack Obama pushing a $447 billion jobs proposal and a special congressional committee deliberating over $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts. Policy makers are wrestling with the question of whether to extend initiatives designed to address hardship stemming from the recession, the nation’s worst economic slump in seven decades.

Joseph Kishore: Record number of Americans in poverty
Washington Post: Nearly one in six in poverty in the U.S.; children hit hard, Census says

UN team accuses council of 'violating international law' by evicting travellers on extraordinary visit to Dale Farm (and even compared it to China and Zimbabwe) - A UN adviser today compared the eviction of residents at Europe's largest illegal travellers' site to the plight of millions in Zimbabwe as he accused a council of 'violating international law'. In an extraordinary visit to Dale Farm, in Essex, Professor Yves Cabannes claimed Basildon Council had broken human rights legislation in three ways. Speaking outside one of the traveller's homes, with the UN flag hoisted behind him, the UN adviser for forced evictions also drew parallels with China and Nigeria - both notorious for human rights abuses. He also said that it was the council, not the Dale Farm residents, who were 'abusing the law', despite the presence of 400 people on illegal plots at the site. Those living at the site illegally are due to be evicted from Monday, but despite claims this will leave them homeless it was revealed today that one of the Dale Farm travellers is masterminding a multi-million-pound property development in Ireland.

FUKUSHIMA -- The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and residents of the zone between 20 and 30 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant held an emergency evacuation drill on Sept. 12. - The drill, held in preparation for any further large-scale emission of radioactive materials from the plant, was the first involving local residents. The GSDF held a similar drill without civilian participation in July. The scenario for the drill presupposed further meltdown of the Fukushima plant's No. 3 reactor core, and a local accumulation of radioactive materials emitting 20 millisieverts of radiation within the next four days. A total of some 400 GSDF personnel were deployed for the drill held in the municipalities of Minamisoma, Tamura, Kawauchi, Hirono, Tomioka and Naraha. Thirty-two municipal workers and firefighters along with 18 local residents also joined the drill. According to the GSDF, its personnel were divided into teams to evacuate the 384 people in areas 20-30 kilometers from the plant who would have extreme difficulty fleeing any further disaster on their own, including some confined to bed. The operation involved 120 GSDF ground vehicles and six helicopters. GSDF personnel went to assigned homes to drive elderly residents to evacuation points, as well as hospitals to drive and fly patients to medical facilities in the city of Fukushima.

Turkish premier reiterates Ankara’s intent to refer legality of Israel’s blockade on Gaza to The Hague, saying the world will see ‘who is standing alongside the victims’. - Speaking at a convention of businessmen in the central Turkish city of Kayseri broadcast live on Turkey’s state news channel TRT Erdogan vowed to continue the legal struggle for justice for the nine people killed in the raid. “We will carry this struggle to The Hague and Erdogan criticizes Obama,” the Turkish premier said, criticizing Turkish opposition leaders for what he described as “acting as advocates for Israel.” Erdogan was also deeply critical of the United States position on the Mavi Marmara incident, pointing out that he had to point out to Obama how the attack had left nine Turks dead from wounds inflicted by 35 bullets mostly fired from close range, one of them an American passport holder. “I asked President Obama whether the reason he showed no interest in one of his nationals being killed was because [the victim] was [ethnically] Turkish – he didn’t reply,” said Erdogan.

This week GRTV talks to Mahdi Nazemroaya, a research associate of the Center for Research in Globalization who spent two months in Libya before escaping after the rebel siege of Tripoli. We discuss what really happened in Libya, including the war crimes perpetrated by NATO in support of the rebels, and how the media helped to enable those war crimes by covering up for the perpetrators.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has "carpet bombed" the entire neighborhoods in Libya, a writer and geopolitical analyst told Press TV's US Desk in an interview.

"They carpet bombed the country ... their deliberate tactic was to create a humanitarian disaster and to militarily clear the way, without any humanitarian regards, without any regards for human life," said Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, from the Canadian-based Centre for Research on Globalization, on Monday.

"[NATO] used every dimension of the psychological war including the media to create fear which created a state of panic and it also traumatized the local population and it caused a lot of people to defect, not a lot but it did cause quite a fair number of people to defect or to remain neutral," Nazemroaya said. Nazemroaya further added that NATO should be held accountable for the war crimes it has committed against the state of Libya.

Meanwhile, NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen went on to say that the US-led military alliance would soon end its operation in Libya. Rasmussen, however, added that a definite timetable would not be announced as their withdrawal depends on the assessment made by commanders on ground.

Libya has been the scene of intense fighting between government troops and the fighters since a revolution seeking to topple the now-fugitive Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi began in mid-February. The US and NATO started to unleash a punishing UN-mandated offensive against Gaddafi in an alleged attempt to pressure him into giving up power on March 19. The alliance's airstrikes have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians.

John Glaser: NATO Bombs Drop as Libyan Civilians Flee
Jason Ditz: Disappeared: Thousands of Black Libyans Missing in Rebel Offensives
Murray Dobbin: What we're not being told about Gadhafi, and the real reason the US wanted him gone

CNN anchors shut down former CIA Agent who says Libya, other wars are causing US debt, and a bipartisan coalition of politicians are driving USA's Mid-East wars

A spate of mysterious deaths on the military-controlled Pacific island of Fiji has led to accusations that authorities are censoring media coverage to protect the multi-million dollar tourism industry. - A Japanese woman, an American businessman and two New Zealanders have died on Fiji in the past three months. The latest death was Mami Nakamura, 27, a Japanese student at an English-language school, whose decomposing body was found among mangroves on September 5. Ms Nakamura was last seen heading to a beach party in Nadi, the main resort town, six days earlier but news media on Fiji gave the incident no coverage until a few days ago. Government censors control every newsroom in Fiji and sources say authorities allowed media reports to be published only after the news leaked out through anti-government blogsites.

A former FBI agent who worked at the heart of America's battle against al-Qaeda has told the BBC he is being prevented from telling the truth as he challenges the back story of 9/11 and what has happened since. - Mr Soufan also argues against the effectiveness of interrogation techniques used by the CIA, such as water boarding. Ali Soufan has not appeared on camera before, but he has now decided to speak out to counter what he sees as a misleading narrative about the last 10 years. Mr Soufan has direct, first-hand experience of some of the most heated controversies of the past decade: whether 9/11 could have been prevented and whether tactics like the water boarding of al-Qaeda suspects were effective and justified. Born in Lebanon, Mr Soufan came to America as a teenager and joined the FBI in the 1990s. As one of the only Arabic speakers he was assigned to early investigations on al-Qaeda.

"Israel to "punish" Turkey":

"Lieberman is also planning to set meetings with the heads of Kurdish rebel group PKK in Europe in order to “cooperate with them and boost them in every possible area.” In these meetings, the Kurds may ask Israel for military aid in the form of training and arms supplies, a move that would constitute a major anti-Turkish position should it materialize."

You'd have to be awfully naive to think that this kind of material military support hasn't already been going on.

Search for: "If I knew then, what I know now, Troy Davis would not be on death row". There's no time for fancy words. They are going to kill Troy Davis on September 21st, 2011. Please find any petition you can, on the Internet—Amnesty International is hosting one—and sign it.

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Oppose the Death Penalty for Troy Davis - PETITION
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